It had been a thousand years.
Over those years he had watched what he once knew disappear and get wiped from the face of the planet, and yet he remained. Walking down the new city that had grown up where his hometown had once been, he couldn't help but feel haunted by the memories of all the people that had died over the years. All his friends, the people he looked up to, his enemies... they were all dead.
Turning down into an empty alleyway, the orange clad man leaped into the air, landing on the roof of the apartment building that had been on his right. It just felt empty without the people he knew, aside from Kyuubi.
He had to give the fox credit, extending his own life by making his container immortal. Clever and tricky. They had gotten to form a somewhat beneficial bond over the centuries of loneliness. However something told him that was about to change, why, he couldn't name, but he knew deep inside his loneliness was about to end.
Leaping down off the roof he walked out of the alleyway and nearly ran into a girl with bubblegum pink hair. Artfully stepping aside he offered an "Excuse me, Sakura-chan." before moving on.
The girl whirled around and stared at the strange blond haired man about her age that was walking away. 'How'd he know my name?'
Completely oblivious of the rosette female staring after him, Naruto continued on down his path to nowhere in particular. He had gotten used to doing this a lot lately. Picking a random direction and just letting his feet carry him away. There was much that he found by just trusting to fate, as Neji would say.
Somewhere deep inside he could hear a familiar, dark voice chuckling. Smiling slightly Naruto knew that Kyuubi was enjoying the trip down memory lane that his wandering had caused. When asked, the fox had said that it was nice to have someone else be able to see time in centuries instead of just minutes and days.
Returning to reality, Naruto barely avoided running into a familiar looking white dog and the young man taking him for a walk. "Sorry about that Kiba, I wasn't looking," Naruto offered before ducking into the new marketplace called a 'mall' that he knew would have one of the best ramen places around. Never once in his ramen induced haze did he notice the curious look the boy and his dog were giving him.